cascade

cascade is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A fall of water over a precipice, as in a river or brook; a waterfall less than a cataract.
2. intransitive verb. To fall in a cascade.
3. intransitive verb. To vomit.
4. noun. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower

   "a little shower of rose petals"

   "a sudden cascade of sparks"

   Synonyms: shower

5. noun. a succession of stages or operations or processes or units

   "progressing in severity as though a cascade of genetic damage was occurring"

   "separation of isotopes by a cascade of processes"

6. noun. a small waterfall or series of small waterfalls
7. verb. arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible
8. verb. rush down in big quantities, like a cascade

Synonyms

shower

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in cascade:

saccade

Common word forms

cascaded, cascades, cascading

Words from these letters

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